2010: A Uniform Odyssey

by Patrick Newman (Jun 30, 2010)

It's time again for my annual alternative uniforms roundup (last
year's is here).
Here's what we have this year:

Yomiuri will sport these cartoonish
threads July 19-21 against Yakult. The uniforms were designed by
middle school student Hikaru Nomoto, who's design was selected from out
of more than 13,000 entries.

This season Seibu is wearing 70′s
era throwback uniforms, from when the team was known as the
Taiheiyo-Club Lions, prior to Seibu ownership.

Orix's summer
uniforms are red this year, which elicits memories the old red
Kintetsu uniforms. Orix also recalled the old Blue Wave team by
wearing 1995
throwback uniforms in a game at Skymark Stadium last month. 1995,
of course, was the year that Orix lifted the city of Kobe by reaching
the Japan Series after the horrific Hanshin Earthquake.

Today's Japanese vocabulary is 復刻版ユニホーム, (fukkokuban uniform),
meaning "re-issue uniform", though in English we would translate that to
"throwback uniform" or "retro uniform".